{"id":11,"date":"2012-12-05T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-12-05T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:42:47","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/welcome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the latest incarnation of my blog-related programming activities. As our friend Lucretius<\/a> says, “All that we see about us consists of transient arrangements of atoms. Some awaken to life. None holds forever.”<\/p>\n

I’ve bid an extremely fond farewell to Cosmic Variance<\/a>, with great memories and enormous respect for my co-bloggers there who are keeping the torch lit. But I wanted to shift to a less formal, more personal and carefree mode of blogging, one where nobody else but me was responsible in any way. I’ll still be doing my best to understand and explain cool ideas in physics, but the only common thread holding the content together will be “things that popped into my head.” It may be intermittent and even inchoate, but hopefully it will be fun.<\/p>\n

To set the tone, here’s a little ditty from Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola, and John McLaughlin. A mixture of heavy thinking and joyful exuberance. Something to shoot for.<\/p>\n

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